The much-hyped premiere of The Social Network has everyone buzzing.
Did the launch of Facebook play out as the movie portrays it? Is Mark
Zuckerberg really so self-absorbed and calculating? Does the movie paint
an accurate picture of a new generation of entrepreneurs? And perhaps
the most dangerous question of all: Do I have what it takes to be the
next Mark Zuckerberg?
Don’t misunderstand. I’m not a Zuckerberg hater. In fact, I’m pretty grateful to the guy for transforming the way I work, write, and, yes, socialize. What concerns me most about The Social Network is that movie’s fans, many of whom are bound to be young and ambitious, will walk away with a very skewed perception of what it means to be an entrepreneur, and what it takes to start a business. While the movie is ostensibly based on fact, its writer, Aaron Sorkin, is quoted in New York Magazine as saying “I don’t want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to storytelling.”
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Author: Donna Fenn
